Category Archives: Zen

PJ Hoover Gives Away an ARC of Black Hole Sun

Author and Texas Sweet­heart (FCC dis­claimer: they really are in Texas and really are sweet­hearts) PJ Hoover (author of The For­got­ten Worlds Tril­ogy) is giv­ing away an ARC of Black Hole Sun, which she calls one of “two of my favorite reads this year.” Here are the details: Clickity Click

July 27, 2010 – 2:06 pm | By thunderchikin | Posted in Essays, Events, Uncategorized, Zen | Comments Off

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April 1, 2010 – 7:10 am | By admin | Posted in Zen | Comments Off

Chicken or Egg: The Answer

Teen #1: “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?“ Mom: “The egg. Eggs were around a long time before the chicken.”

January 14, 2008 – 3:10 am | By thunderchikin | Posted in Zen | Comments Off

Smarticles of Matter

Today’s vocab­u­lary lesson–Smarticle The Urban Dic­tio­nary defines the term “smar­ti­cle” as: (adj) Describ­ing someone/something being smart, smart in nature. Iron­i­cally uses incor­rect gram­mar. Usu­ally used in an infor­mal or jok­ing fash­ion “The girl read her smar­ti­cle answer out loud to the class.” “That was quite a smar­ti­cle maneu­ver, he thought.” That’s all well and good because …

January 10, 2008 – 12:53 pm | By thunderchikin | Posted in Zen | Comments Off

I Know Y’all Are Sick of This

But I’m not. http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6517352.html?nid=3323.  Scroll down.

January 8, 2008 – 4:03 am | By thunderchikin | Posted in Zen | Comments Off

Liz’s Publication Party

Liz Gallagher’s novel, The Oppo­site of Invis­i­ble, is mak­ing its debut!  Here’s the review I posted awhile ago: “Alice is a Seat­tle teenager who seeks advice from a poster. She has two tree-hugger par­ents, one good friend, and an end­less thirst for vanilla lattes. What she’d really like, though, is a boyfriend, some­one, any­one who …

January 8, 2008 – 1:14 am | By thunderchikin | Posted in Zen | Comments Off